I was recently commissioned by Winsor & Newton to create a drawing tutorial for Paint & Create Magazine.
I created this fashion illustration of a Richard Quinn look, using watercolours, fine liner and a touch of colour pencils.
It’s been a while since I’ve had something in print!
A lot of people are worried ai will steal their work.
So I’m here to share a way to protect your career from ai, and I’m NOT talking about opting out of your imagery being used to train it.
Funnily enough, the fact my work might be used to train ai or be used in some weird amalgamation that’s spewed out after someone types in a few words, isn't what bothers me.
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AI is a topic that I get asked about a looooot, I think there’s huge amount of worry around and rightfully so, it’s the unknown, but something pops up every few decades to disturb the entire creative process (photography, digital art, 3d rendering) and things shift and adjust, so this isn’t the first and won’t be the last.
Overall I don’t see live event work going anywhere anytime soon, because if the finished outcome was the most important part, then photo booths would be everywhere instead of me and my 457 markers.
But I do see the editorial sphere/illustration world adjusting to this new way of working, personally, I’m hoping humans catch themselves before it gets too far and realise lets just keep the AI for the boring stuff so we can be left with the fun stuff.
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The second most asked question I get asked, after ‘can you draw me like one of your French girls’ is ‘where did you study?’…
Which sums up how much emphasis people put on the requirement of having a degree and on how much credit your uni gets for your current skills or career.
I didn’t actually study illustration, which always seems to shock people!
So I just wanna write a lil blog post about what a degree actually does for artists, because there’s a lot of mystery behind it, everyone thinks a degree is a requirement for you to then get into that field.
And that’s not the case!
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